"If thou strayest, listen for the mountain-horn, and it will call thee back to the path that goeth upward" (Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 328).
A great British statesman strayed from the path of conscience into the byways of human glory. After years of indispensable service and eminent achievement, he found himself abruptly thrust out and discredited. Mortal glorification enticed him to prince-worship of personal power, a direct violation of the First Commandment, entangling him in treason to the divine decree. Hear the sad lesson he bequeaths to men: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." All unheard by him was the call of the mountain horn, which would have drawn him "back to the path that goeth upward."
Job, after a life of godly consistency and obedience, found himself bereft humanly, in despair, and tormented by self-righteous comforters. But Job never strayed from the path; he never wavered in his loyalty to his understanding of God; and just here he overcame Satan. In all the persecutions of evil, he never yielded to the temptation to disbelieve in God. The greater his anguish, the deeper his protests of God's care. So Job, when he was enlightened, was fully restored to harmony. The lesson he learned finds expression in Deuteronomy (13:3): "The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
